Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-10

The Coming Reunion on the Field
OF Gettysburg.
F,'ao, TIE ye,o Yoyh Herald.

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RICHMOND, VA, March 5.-The an
nounoement last week of the proposed
visit of Pickett's men to Gettysburg on
July next has sounded like n bugle call
throughout the country. mastering the
veterans OF both armies together In a
grand reunion on the heights Of Cemetery
Ridge. And nobly have they responded L.
Picketts men and Hancock's ''vets"
are preparing once more to meet on the
historic field, Quarter masters and COM
mlssaries are up aud doing. Camp equip
age and good, substantial stores are being
looked alter.
But the ordnance department win be
left out. ...f.s
The festive sutler Will take it's place
and furnish the ammunition for the re-
union.
Pocket pistols and light guns of short
range VIII do the work next time.
The killed and wounded may not be as
numerous a. in '65. but 1t has been re-
solved to bury none on the battlefield.
Ambulances will be ready to carry off
the fallen and the manned vets.
just at this point one OF PIcketts
bravest survivors suggests "Hwo Pic
lures"
DuUml DOOml
And the sultry deathh6e stiffness of
July 3, 1868, was broken by the firing in
quick succession of two signal guns.
Before their echoes had fairly ceased 800
guns were belching forth the ir thundeTs
from Confederate aud Federal batteries.
There was luli, and from behind the Con-
feaerate guns rose in long line PicketCs
division OF infantry. Silently they moved
onward to Cemetery Hill. Swath after
swath was cut in their ranks as the Fed
eral batteries opened upon them from
front and flank, but the gaps We're closed
up, and onward they moved as il on dress
parade Steadily they reached the stone
wall, and were met by whitening fire of
musketry, but on they pressed.
They were Overl The guns were theirs !!
But alas! their strength was gone, their
ranks were tbinned, their leaders killed
or wounded. TIE lorlorn hope had done
It's duty, but support they had none.
They met gallantfoe, one well worthy
of their mettle.
With the soft summer sun OF July 8,
1887, on that same field where now peace
in all her beauty reigns supreme, and
where tie clash Of arms is changed to the
quiet murmur Of harvest day, it is pro-
posed that another and more pleasant
meeting shall occur, and that the surviv-
Ors OF this scar worn command shall there
reunite on the old ground, make their
move on the Federal lines and there be
met by their erstwhile opponents with the
warm grasp OF true and tried soldiers,
thus merging the fierce and deadly strug-
gle unto death into the fraternal embrace
of reunited cOuntrymen.
GA beautiful, patriotic sentiment"
said another of Picketts men, land Wen
do it,"
He meant what he said.
Maj Charles Pickett, brother of the
Major General and eX-Adjutant General
of the famous division, writing to the
Herald, says:
81 hope that the reunion of Pickett's
division will not only take place next
summer, but that it will in numbers and
general interest rival, if not excel, any
similar meeting since the war. AS Get
tysburg was, as 1t is called, the high
water mark Of the late struggle, so hope
this suggested meeting at the old place
may show that the tide of good feeling has
again risen TO its proper level"
Now hear how the 'BOys in Blue" are
coming up to the understanding call of
tie Herald's bugle.
Ex-Adjt. A. W. McDermott, of the
Sixty-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers,
and now Secretary Of the sixty-ninth Sur
viyOrs' Association, writing TO Secretary
Association, says:
By resolution of the Sixty-ninth Regiment
Association, | am directed TO extend to your
association an invitation to meet us on the Old
battle ground on July 3. 1887. 1t is our de-
sire to give your association reception pre-
vIous to the dedication Of our monument. and
we know of no more fitting place than tina
portion of the held Whereon is the now his
toric clump OF trees which was the objective
point selected by Gems. Lee and Pickett as the
lQttGVsG Uuinn K hen what ia
as the most intrepid and gallant charge re-
corded IN history. That clump of trees was
In the rear OF the right centre of the Sixty
ninth Pennsylvania and when the ''0blique
movement" was made by your division it was
at that point that the concentration of your
lines was greatest.
we have ever held in the highest esteem
the members of PicketpS gallant division, and
hope now to fulfill long cherished desire
that of grasping hands, may we hope, in eter-
nal friendship. and extending TO Your asso-
citation the Irishman,'s greeting of "a hundred
thousand welcomes
/ remain, yours most respectfully,
A. w. MCDERMoTT.
The survivors OF Gen. Alexander S.
w GIBBS brigade, composed OF the Sixty
ninth, Seventy-hrst, Seyenty-second and
One Hundred and SIKH Pennsylvania
Volunteers, are enthusiastic over the pro-
posed reunion. They held the line and
bore the assault of Picketts men on
Cemetery Ridge.
Ex-Lieut. William s. Stockton, OF Com
pany +, Seventy-6rst Pennsylvania Vol
unteers, writing TO Secretary Loehr, of
Picketts Division Association, says:
1.-The Soventy-hrst Pennsylvania would
like to say BE our guests but we are a
young organization ana not in shape 10
say that now. We are not year old and
have lust contracted for O monument at
Cemetery Ridge that will cost from 81, 900
to $1,000. We nave the good Will, how
ever, aud Will do all that we can to make
you comfortable this time, and welcome
on Pennsylvania soil.
81 was at Gettysburg last July and
stood on the Identical spot l occupied
twenty-three Years ago, when you made
your grand and noble charge. Never in
the worlds history was there q grander
sight than l witnessed in July, 1868. If
you had been on review you could not
have marched with hrmer tread or better
alignment. | remember we'll how proud
we felt, moving we were to meet 30 gall
liant and brave an enemy. But those
days are gone, never, / hope and pray, 10
return. For hereafter, hope, we will be
fast friends, with all sectional feeling
dead. Let us be comrades indeed, having
only one country and one tiag.n
Another letter says: .sASasnSuug 0rs of
the seventy-frst PCauaglv5nia Volun-
teers, which was part of the Philadel-
phia brigade, AID which was opposed to
Plckett's division when they made their
glorious and famous charge at Gottys-
hupv cnntofnt,Iutn dadioatinu thpfr upnII.